As the company expanded in the advertising market, it needed to handle more diverse jobs, from signage and soft signage to custom apparel and promotional items. However, its existing equipment posed challenges in quality consistency, colour stability, and reliable continuous operation.

Mimaki’s large-format printing systems expanded the company’s capabilities across rigid media, roll media and textiles. Stable, high-quality output improved flexibility for short lead times and small-lot jobs, while standardised operations improved efficiency and reduced training demands.

The flag market is shrinking and we want to develop new markets.

By introducing 11 units of TxF150-75 and establishing an environment in which even new staff can manufacture goods so as not to become a dependent work, goods can be manufactured quickly, safely and securely. Can be ordered in units of 1 to tens of thousands.

Support ski jumper Sara Takanashi with merchandise made using UV-DTF printers!

We printed the "JUMP for the Earth PROJECT" logo on a ready-made tumbler using the UV-DTF printer "UJV300DTF-75" and presented them to Sara Takanashi.

Printing on special materials and expensive materials with restrictions on materials and shapes involved time and risk in preparing jigs and printing from trial manufacture to actual production, and it was difficult to propose sales.

The introduction of a UV-DTF printer eliminates the need for jigs and allows a wide range of materials to be handled, reducing the time required for trial manufacture. The transfer sheet method has a high degree of freedom and contributes to shortening delivery times and winning new projects. The understanding of the sales field has advanced, and the ability to respond to not only order goods but also signature related matters has been greatly improved.

Sublimation transfer printing is limited to polyester, so they would like to create an environment where they can print on a wider variety of fabrics.

The introduction of TRAPIS enables printing on nylon, synthetic leather, blended fabric, and mixed woven fabric. It was also adopted by a famous designer brand and received high praise. Currently focusing on BtoB printing orders triggered by commercialization of own brand.

Need a machine with high productivity and high cutting accuracy for apparel applications.

When they were using other companies' machine, they experienced cutting discrepancies or lack of cutting, but the CJV150 covered all the problems. The vividness of the colors is highly evaluated by customers, and they are also satisfied with Mimaki's support system.

They were having trouble keeping a large inventory of products in stock.

Switching to in-house UV printing on plain materials eliminated inventory concerns. The business has steadily expanded, and now offers fabric printing, acrylic coating, and other services in addition to goods production using approx. 40 UV machines.

The COVID-19 made it imperative to develop new sales channels.

Purchased sublimation transfer printers, UV printers, laminators, cutting plotters, etc., and launched an in-house manufacturing and sales business specializing in sports-related goods to meet detailed needs.

In addition to output by 3D printer, post-processing such as polishing and coloring was time-consuming. Also, the hue were not very good and sometimes the finished product was not as desired.

The size of the output at a time was increased, greatly reducing labor and time. Output could be done at a level that did not require post-processing such as scraping off and polishing. In addition, coloring work is no longer necessary and colors can be expressed as they are in the 3D data, expanding the range of applications and making it possible to realize a variety of offers.

The Mimaki's JFX200 that was previously in our operation was a really good printer. While using it, I wanted a printer with even more productivity.

The JFX600, which supports a variety of print modes, is capable of printing approx. 15 full-size board per hour with even high image quality. And like the JFX200, its ease of setting media of various shapes and the repeatablity of print position accuracy were desitive factors in the investment.